Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

"Detectorists" goes to America

The British TV sitcom "Detectorists" has crossed the Atlantic by way of the streaming subscription service Acorn TV (Robert Llo...

Without Due Diligence How to Spot Blood Antiquities?

Do collectors really want blood antiquities cheap? ' Three found dead digging for artifacts in Monufiya' , Al-Masry Al-Youm Tue,...

Ssssocialists, Superficiality, Stupidity and Sources in the Heritage Debate about Syria

" Collectors, trust me - it's not really happening " - Peter Tompa at Dura Europos Although they claim that they coll...

Monday, 24 August 2015

Syrian government no longer controls 83% of the country

As Columb Strack – Senior Analyst, Middle East and North Africa at IHS Review - points out, the ' Syrian government no longer control...

"Let's Save the Statues"?

For Mr Vikan and all those ADCAEA dealers who want to save the statues of Syria by buying them from war-profiteers : Syrian girl who s...

French Couple Caught Metal Detecting in Spain

Spanish police have arrested a 47-year-old woman and 31-year-old man, both French nationals, for allegedly metal detecting on an archaeo...

Reports that Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'blown up by IS'

Temple of Baalshamin in happier days ( BBC ) The BBC is reporting (' Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'blown up by IS '......

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Paul Barford: British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.

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